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DAVID PETER HELLENBRAND
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
November 3, 1947 – December 1, 1968
Service recordDavid Peter Hellenbrand, of Janesville, Wisconsin, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on December 1, 1968, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 37W, Line 17 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37W · Line 17
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- November 3, 1947
- Home of record
- Janesville, Wisconsin (Rock County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 1, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Bien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
21 names on the Wall carry the date December 1, 1968; he was the only one lost in Bien Hoa Province that day. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 36 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 37W, Line 17
- ALFREDO D GRANADO-AVILESCorporal · December 1, 1968
- LARRY STEVEN HEATERLance Corporal · December 1, 1968
- JERRY ALLEN KISERCorporal · December 1, 1968
- MICHAEL EUGENE LAWTONSergeant · December 1, 1968
Same unit, same day
- THOMAS RICHARD STUTTSPrivate First Class · Panel 37W, Line 19
From Janesville
- WILLIAM JOSEPH SCHNEIDERSpecialist Four · December 1, 1966
- ROBERT ALLEN MCCARTNEYSergeant · April 15, 1967
- VINCENT JAMES AGIUSLance Corporal · April 17, 1967
- RALPH MICHAEL WIXSONPrivate First Class · May 16, 1967
- JOHN MCFARLAND KESSINGERMajor · July 2, 1967
- JOHN JUNIOR FIEDLERPetty Officer First Class · July 29, 1967
- DONALD WILLIAM DOWNINGLieutenant Colonel · September 5, 1967
- DAVID LEE DROUGHTSergeant · December 31, 1967
- HARRY WARREN SCHNEIDERCorporal · February 16, 1968
- TIMOTHY CHARLES AGARDSpecialist Four · February 19, 1968
Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.